Why should business begin making plans now for Computing Fabrics when theyre still years away?
Infrastructure, tooling, training, corporate structure, and capital investment costs big, very big, and can chain a company so tightly to the past that they cant get free of it. Second, business should consider fabrics in their business model (analyses and planning not taking immediate action), which does look out beyond next Christmas. Technology vendors will be the first who will need to come to grips with fabrics so that they can exploit the trend rather than become a casualty of it. In retrospect, would organizations have wanted to become aware of the PC back in the 70s, would minicomputer vendors have wanted to know about distributed processing based on commodity microprocessors, and would businesses have wanted an advance warning of the coming web? The answers are trivially easy: yes, yes, and yes.
